by DAVID FLINT – THE reaction to this column’s 2020 conclusion that COVID had escaped from a Wuhan laboratory ranged from ridicule to denunciation as a “conspiracy theory” or “misinformation and disinformation”. These terms are code for suppressing divergence from the elites’…
by ERIC ABETZ – PARTICIPATION awards are those lame awards that ensure every participant walks away with something in their hand. Victoria’s Dunkley by-election result on Saturday delivered a similar result for the two major Parties. The hapless Greens, whilst participating, suffered…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THERE have been two startling revelations about the great COVID over-reach in the space of about a week, upholding claims previously dismissed as conspiracy theories and misinformation. First, a peer-reviewed scientific study linked pandemic vaccines to a range…
by BETTINA ARNDT – THERE’S a four-year gap in life expectancy in Australia between men and women. So how come our peak science funding body, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), in 2022 allocated over six times more funding to…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party is split in so many different directions as to be almost meaningless. No Liberal-led government has ever played to its strengths in office – and very few have played to them in opposition. No one…
by DAVID FLINT – AS A direct result of his massive 61:39 loss in the Voice referendum to divide Australians by race we should, with a certain irony, thank Anthony Albanese. As a consequence of rank-and-file Australians overwhelmingly saying No, they won’t…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA is now inextricably tied to China. If for any reason trade between our two countries should be disrupted, Australia’s economy would rapidly deteriorate and China’s would not. In 1987 when President Ronald Reagan said “Mr Gorbachev tear…
by GABRIËL MOENS – THE perennial discussion about the reading ability of Australia’s primary and high school children reached yet another milestone with the publication of a report by the Grattan Institute. The report, The Reading Guarantee: How to give every child…
SPECIAL FEATURE: by PAUL COLLITS – JUST recently, it emerged that two banks (NAB and Westpac) were closing branches in my second home town of Lithgow, NSW. And in many other regional towns across Australia. The local paper in Lithgow stated: “This…
by DAVID FLINT – ONLY the naive can doubt, and hired guns pretend, that monopolists (including oligopolists) will, if allowed, engage in price gouging. There is no need for an inquiry to establish that. Like the scorpion in the fable about the…
